City banker faces jail after horror crash which killed unborn baby

A City banker whose ‘suicidal driving’ on an unlit stretch of road led to the death of an unborn child faces jail.
Leroy Margolis, 29, smashed into an oncoming Volkswagen Polo in the opposite lane after ricocheting off a traffic island as he overtook a lorry.
Cambridge Crown Court heard pregnant nursery worker Louise Abbott, 28, lost her baby due to head injuries from seat-belt trauma because of the ‘impatient and impetuous driver’.
Judge Jonathan Cooper told the Lloyds chartered accountant, from Wandsworth, London, to expect jail after he was found guilty by unanimous jury of causing... read more

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